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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Synopsis "Jerusalem: The Biography"
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs - "Impossible to put down.... Vastly enjoyable." --The New York Times Book Review How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.
Simon Sebag Montefiore es autor de numerosos best sellers múltiples veces premiados que se han traducido a cuarenta y ocho idiomas. Su obra Catherine the Great and Potemkin fue nominada al Samuel Johnson Prize de biografía; La corte del zar rojo (Crítica, 2004) ganó el British Book Award al mejor libro de historia del año; Llamadme Stalin (Crítica, 2007) fue galardonado con el Costa Biography Award, el LA Times Book Prize for Biography y el Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; Jerusalén (Crítica, 2011) ganó el JBC Book of the Year Prize y el Wenjin Book Prize en China, y por Los Románov (Crítica, 2016) le otorgaron el premio literario Lupicaia del Terriccio. También es autor de las novelas que forman la Trilogía de Moscú: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon y One night in Winter, que ganó el Political Fiction Book of the Year Award; y ha escrito, junto a Santa Montefiore, la serie de novelas infantiles The Royal Rabbits of London. Sus últimas obras son Escrito en la historia. Cartas que cambiaron el mundo (Crítica, 2019) y Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World.
